Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'besieged' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'besieged' in the standard works and contain 8.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Kgs. 6:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

 6:24 And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 23 0 23
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 8 0 8
1 Chr. 1 0 1
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 2 0 2
Jer. 4 0 4
Ezek. 2 0 2
Dan. 1 0 1
NT 0 0 0
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 23 0 23

2 Kgs. 6:24
And it came to pass after this, that Ben-hadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

2 Kgs. 6:25
And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

2 Kgs. 16:5
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

2 Kgs. 17:5
Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

2 Kgs. 18:9
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 Kgs. 19:24
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

2 Kgs. 24:10
At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

2 Kgs. 25:2
And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.